Welding fluid.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VINCENZO MASSIMINO, OF CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

WELDING FLUID.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

. Application filed July 29, 1908. Serial N 0. $46,002.

- To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known hat I, VINOENZO MAssI- MINO, a citizen of the United States,residing at Charleston, in the county of Kanawha and State of WestVirginia, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in WeldingFluids; and I doereby declare the following to Le a full, clear, andexact description of the iiivention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in welding fluidsand the object of the invention 1s to provide a novel fluid of thischaracter intended more particularly to be employed with the Welding ofcopper.

The fluid consists of a mixture of the juice of L. sativa or lettuce ormore particularly the common wild form thereof known as L. canadcnsisand crushed dunglison or blue stone.

The proportions of the ingredients used .in the usual -'w ay.

I claim: A welding fluidco'nsisting of a mixture of crushedblue stoneand the juice of lettuce- In testimony whereof I have signed my name tothis specification 1n the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

his VINCENZO MASSIMINO.

mark VVit-nesses JAB. DIANA,- EDWARD M. BURDETTE.

